<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thereforegrin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thereforegrin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:14:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thereforegrin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thereforegrin in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no typical person is going to buy 6 GPUs unless those are 6 dies on a single card.<p>Ergo 6 GPUs isn't a typical setup, never has been and most likely never will.<p>OP is a classic outlier dev who is able and willing to set up and maintain such a thing - most normal people aren't.</p>
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<p>and this assumption is wrong how exactly when viewed through the lens of real-world events?<p>I'm not talking about the lens of morality nor even the law, because it's obvious this shouldn't be the case but in actuality, it is - everyday more true than it was yesterday.</p>
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<p>Zodiac killer was never caught and it seems he already died a few years back - it was established some time ago through some teen's DNA whose grandfather was ex-cop or something. Don't quote me on that but it's on the net somewhere and was there before AI slop happened.<p>Basically a lot more evil goes unpunished than most realize, because carma is a thing only when it's a thing - sometimes it just isn't.</p>
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<p>the comment is highlighting the fact that git's use of sub-par cryptography makes "boutique supply-chain" attack easier to pull off.</p>
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<p>do you have a neighbour LLM who does not say "hello" when it sees you and THAT is how you know it's an LLM?<p>I'm a bit confused by your argument because I too have some neighbors who don't say "hello" when they see me. Are they LLMs too, you think?<p>Consciousness is a thing we assume of others because of tact not fact.</p>
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<p>To be honest it's both interesting and embarrassing to discover that no brain researcher had ever investigated brain cells' development from the very beginning to know the lineages of various cells.<p>This just goes to show how huge holes we have in even the most basic knowledge about biology.<p>We can cut'n'splice DNA in various ways, but up until now we didn't even know where do all of our neurons come from.<p>There are still more unknowns in those basic areas of biology e.g. how bio-currents shape development of organs in both an embryo and a fully developed organism.<p>It's rather obvious that there are key differences there but we don't have any solid knowledge about this mechanics itself, let alone on how it differs as the organism matures.</p>
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<p>was there really any meaningful fallout though?</p>
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<p>with RCE and no privacy</p>
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<p>disgust is the simplest of emotions and so requires none of what you claim.<p>You're mistaking it with substantiated criticism.</p>
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<p>apparently</p>
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<p>That is why every ToS is meaningless unless you can somehow put a gun behind them as the ultimate enforcement with the courts, lawyers and the whole legal system as a fig-leaf-intermediary.</p>
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<p>what does having engineering credentials have to do with being a sociopath?<p>Sure, the guys focused on tech don't usually think with an empathy of a nurse (novadays not even nurses are guaranteed to be empathetic), but I know quite a few devs and IT people who are extremely pro-social.<p>It's the managerial, financial-oriented mindset that is the greatest predictor of sociopathic character.<p>The more power one has in an organization the more socio- and psycho-pathic they tend to be, simply because it's easier to get to the top if you are an amoral person, who is not holding back for any reason other than having power. That is why absolute power corrupts absolutely.<p>MBAs are bred to be sociopathic money-grabbers - I know that from experience.<p>I once made the mistake of going into an MBA program. On the very first lecture the lecturer asked each participant for his/her motivation for being there.<p>Most of them said 'money' and those who didn't were asked again until they caved-in and said 'money' as well or they were laughed out by the lecturer.<p>MBAs are expected to be sociopathic or you as a company shareholder won't be able to motivate them easily to do your bidding.<p>It's like public/private schooling, but worse - those programs are designed to create mindless drones for the institutions that use them for their own policy enforcement.</p>
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<p>yes, there are no coincidences, only signs.<p>There was also an art exhibition called 'The B-thing', before the attack: <a href="https://publicdelivery.org/gelitin-b-thing/" rel="nofollow">https://publicdelivery.org/gelitin-b-thing/</a><p>Then there are reports of FBI expelling from the USA some 100+ foreign art students after the attack.<p>There are a lot more dots to connect in this case, so it gets even easier but if people expect to be told the truth by a news anchor it can take 75+ years - that is the word we live in.</p>
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<p>wouldn't you go into plea bargain if you knew there's 80% chance of conviction of you don't?<p>At some point the high conviction rate acts as a deterrent from not entering a plea. IMHO this is the case in the US and has been for quite some time.</p>
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<p>actually depends on the age and life experience of the advisor - if it's an old woman I'd be inclined to listen to what she may want to say.<p>A young MD full of himself? I may be a bit sceptical about his know-it-all attitude.</p>
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<p>people are emotional first and rational second</p>
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<p>wouldn't that just be: "subappaltatore - una persona incaricata di svolgere un lavoro"?</p>
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<p>doesn't Linux have virtual memory too? That would be retarded, though it would explain a lot.</p>
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<p>and killing programs and/or freezing the OS is somehow more efficient? By what metric? Certainly not by any UX or productivity one.<p>I've moved to Linux from Windows some years ago but the first thing that shocked me was precisely the abysmal performance around low memory availability.<p>Got my system stabilized eventually by means of some magical incantations but this wasn't a pleasant experience and I wouldn't want to repeat it.<p>It's beyond me how come Linux is so decrepid in this particular area compared to Windows.</p>
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<p>at least not yet</p>
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